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title: Adobe Lightroom and color spaces
date: 2007-11-28
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Here is an interesting article from CNET on color spaces, I have to admit I did not fully understand the differences between all of the choices within <a href="http://www.adobe.com/lightroom">Lightroom</a>. I have been using Lightroom for several months now and really love this application, it is not cheap but then you do get what you pay for. 
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<a href="http://www.cnet.com/8301-13556_1-9823747-61.html">Adobe Lightroom and color spaces | The Pervasive Datacenter - CNET Blogs</a> 
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	That was my problem. I was exporting to JPEGs with an Adobe RGB color space. Lightroom (like Photoshop and other higher-end imaging programs) understand how to properly display images using that color space on an sRGB monitor. However, neither Firefox nor IrfanView do.  
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	Moral of the story? Although Apple&#39;s Safari and the Firefox 3 beta can display non-sRGB color spaces correctly, Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer and Firefox 2.x don&#39;t. Nor do most basic file viewers. Therefore, for most purposes--and certainly for Web display--it&#39;s best to use JPEGs with an sRGB color space or the results probably won&#39;t be what you expect. 
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On an additional Lightroom note, with version 1.3 and the new SDK, and thanks to <a href="http://regex.info">Jeffrey Friedl</a> you can now <a href="http://regex.info/blog/photo-tech/lightroom-smugmug">export directly</a> to <a href="http://www.smugmug.com">SmugMug</a>. Jeffrey is still working through some bugs, but recent versions are starting to work pretty well. Thanks Jeffrey!
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